Let these right to food-related resources update you in September!
Rome- The right to food is a cross-cutting issue. There are many dimensions interrelated, actors and processes involved, diversity of visions, subtle difference between concepts or emerging issues.
In order for every person to be able to fulfil the right to adequate food, or to advocate for its implementation, an understanding of certain issues and skills are needed.
The materials available on this page are studies, platforms and other resources that have been recently published not only by FAO but also other entities, sometimes issues in one or more of the six official FAO languages. The selection of items has been made by the FAO Right to Food Team, who aims to share information, provide practical guidance and stimulate debate on various aspects of the right to food.
Over 2022 FAO will be posting an update of these resources.
We hope you find them useful and enjoy this food for thought!
Selection of right to food-related resources in August
The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment |UN General Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly declared in July that everyone on the planet has a right to a healthy environment, a move backers say is an important step in countering the alarming decline of the natural world. The resolution said climate change and environmental degradation are some of the most pressing threats to humanity's future, and it called on states to step up efforts to ensure their people have access to a "clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
The right to food and the COVID-19 pandemic - Interim report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food |Michael Fakhri
The report examines the emerging issues concerning the realization of the right to food in the context of the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and its impact on food security and nutrition. It observes that, while living with the coronavirus disease for over two years, communities have been adapting to survive. Yet, most national Governments still have not come together with a substantive, international response to the food crisis. The Special Rapporteur highlights structural constraints and outlines how a just transition to agroecology provides the way forward.
To ease the world food crisis, focus resources on women and girls| Elizabeth Bryan , Claudia Ringler and Nicole Lefore
The global effects of the Ukraine war hit girls and women the hardest, exacerbating inequalities. Aid programmes must adapt.
Among approaches to addressing malnutrition, the language of human rights is notably present in international nutrition discourse and national policy and covenants, but the conceptualization, implications and utility of human rights for nutrition practice are contested. Thisresearch explores how the utility of a ‘right to nutrition’ is perceived by different actors, and how differences in interpretation affect its potential for reducing malnutrition
Operationalizing pathways to sustaining peace in the context of Agenda 2030 | FAO
Agriculture, natural resources, food security and nutrition can be sources of peace or conflict, crisis or recovery, tragedy or healing. Underpinning this is ensuring that the Organization’s projects and interventions are conflict-sensitive so that all stakeholders understand the dynamics of the diverse contexts in which FAO works.
It’s time we all come together to address the global food crisis | Oped by Abdulla Shabid, 76th President of the United Nations General Assembly, and Gabriel Ferrero, CFS Chair.
Millions of lives are at stake and the world’s most vulnerable do not have the luxury of time.
Derecho a la alimentación adecuada en América Latina y el Caribe Desafíos y claves para su garantía, protección y realización | Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (available only in Spanish)